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Summary: insightful
Review: Only from a pen of a former Marxist could such an accute critique flow. If one wants to search for the unbalance in the political left, one should look no farther from this book.I left off a star because because I did not find the later portions of the book as great as the beginning. Although I did find those good as well. He is at his best dealing with liberal hypocrites. Unfortunately for America, this gives Horowitz a lot of material. The underlying tone of the book is hurt, which is undergirded by sadness. The wasted potential and energies from the misguided left is truly preventing our country from being all it can be.
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Summary: Revealing
Review: Quite a strong content publication that dramatically indicts left-wing hypocrisey. He weaves his personal past experience with the Black Panthers and other liberal movements with current themes and how our society has coddled a truely intolerant and exclusionary political movement in the guise of diversity (but not of opinion.....) and compassion. Note that Horowitz compromises the work with unfortunate continual reference to Judaism and Israel....even to the point of actually lying about who started the '67 war. That sort of "Hebrew-supremist" zeal sadly calls into question the legitimacy of other "facts" he proposes. Overall though, a solid political read.
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Summary: For Betty - Oh God, What Have We Done....
Review: One brings to a book everything one is and has been through. Let me discuss David Horowitz's Hating Whitey by seemingly digressing a little on my own experience. I grew up in the white suburbs of Detroit during the '60s and '70s and have vivid memories of the Detroit riot and my uncle and aunt's bakery being almost burnt to the ground, while their neighbors and friends were increasingly driven out by violence and the erosion of social order. In the end, they too accepted the inevitability of flight for their lives. More than forty years of programs and promises of "renaissance" have only produced a dysfunctional city that often can neither educate its young nor reliably provide the most basic services such as snow removal and, for a couple of days now, electricity. At the University of Michigan I studied with Robert Hayden, a former Poet Laureate at the Library of Congress, who thought of himself as a human being, first and foremost, though he begrudgingly accepted Afro-American, despite his preference at times for Negro, coming from an older time. The child of an interracial marriage, Hayden loathed the divisiveness of racial politics and lacerated radical blacks on more than one occasion. Ultimately, his vision of human oneness melded with that of Martin Luther King and similar figures, challenging us all to a deeply demanding spiritual ethic, a universal standard holding all accountable, before which all must struggle and strive. David Horowitz devastatingly chronicles the result of the lack of such a standard on race relations during the last forty years; the result in the university; the result in the media; the result in the legal system; the result in politics; the result in the hearts and minds and souls of our entire nation. As one who has edited the poems and prose of a human being usually identified as black, I have had the experience several times of being invited for job interviews at colleges only to be met with disbelief and gaping mouths when I, a whitey, walked in through the departmental door. I am one who has lived through almost everything about which Horowitz writes regarding academia, including losing a tenure track job as the result of a relentless and byzantine conspiracy of "colleagues" who wanted a black in the position, one widely perceived by those fit to judge as nowhere near my intellectual equal and who eventually had to be removed from my post for incompetence. Horowitz's major shortcoming, typical of the modern secular mind, liberal or conservative, is that his critique, unlike Dostoevsky who understood the nature of modernity, does not go deep enough into the spiritual collapse that underlies the dynamics of race, as they underlay the collapse into communism. This failure is also evident in his Destructive Generation, which is, nevertheless, another of his brave and brilliant books. Perhaps someday Horowitz will plumb further into the depths of radical causes. Being a white man and given the politically charged nature of race today, Horowitz demonstrates a rare streak of moral strength and courage by his daring to speak his conscience against black racism and the misguided designs of race elites. Fortunately, he is not alone. Along with Hating Whitey, those truly interested in beginning to understand and confront the race dilemmas of America should also read Ward Connerly's Creating Equal, Shelby Steele's A Dream Deferred, and Thomas Sowell's The Quest for Cosmic Justice, works by exceptional, heroic human beings who have all been slandered as Uncle Toms by more than one race radical.
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Summary: Occasionally Strident But True
Review: In this book, Horowitz takes no prisoners. He says exactly what he thinks, "with the bark on" as they used to say. The result is occasionally hard to take for some, but he says truths most others don't have the guts to say in these timid times.
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Summary: Stop the Insanity! Stop the Blame Game!
Review: It's a pity that David Horowitz has to write this account thirty-five years after the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed. But the sad truth is that the vision of Martin Luther King has been bastardized into racial Marxism, where non-blacks have become the everlasting foe that must be crushed. As Horowitz makes clear, much of the regress and setbacks in the African-American community is a result not of "whitey" but of black leaders themselves -- who encourage young blacks to think of themselves as oppressed victims needing assistance and protection from a benevolent government. But notions of victimhood encourages resentment and does nothing to help blacks to reach their full potential. Instead, it makes them focus on obstacles, real or imagined. And this state of mind is self-fulfilling, producing failure more frequently than success. And the failure, in turn, drives the drumbeat of "blame whitey" instead of focusing on the real cause of failure -- the black victimhood mentality perpetuated by intellectual elitists who claim to have the interest of black people at heart. Horowitz refers to decades of carnage (e.g. the destruction of the black family via liberal anti-family welfare incentives) to demonstrate the consequences of following the line that blacks need ever more government to help them because they can't help themselves. It's time to end the insanity! Blacks are human beings equally capable of reaching their potential if only others would stop lying to them about hurdles and roadblocks. A positive message of hope along with elevating black role models (e.g. Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Alan Keyes, etc.) is the key not only to black achievement -- but also the key to reducing racial tensions -- and the culture of blaming one another for our own failures.
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Summary: Seekers of Truth about race in America--Look within.......
Review: David Horowtiz uses his powerful pen like a scapel to expose the hypocricy of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and others who are riding the tide of growing black racism. This book is a real eye opener. ...
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Summary: Excellent! Excellent! Read this book if you care about truth
Review: Once, again David Horowitz does what most writers are scared to do: write the truth. In each chapter Horowitz exposes the deceit and the degeneracy of many of the Left's most "hallowed" causes. It is NOT an easy book to read; it causes you to really be reflective on WHY you think the way you do. We have been spoon-fed pabulum by the major news networks without taking the time to analyze just what it is they are giving us: the politically correct interpretation. Horowitz, a former 60's radical, knows better than most conservatives, the way the Left thinks. And according to Horowitz, the Left truly believes - it has faith - that it's agenda will bring about "social" justice, world peace & harmony. Even if it means lying or "constructing the truth". Horowitz goes after these lies in this book: Institutional rascism; hate crimes; democrat pandering to & the fueling of Black fears; and freedom of speech on college campuses. This book is refreshing! Read it and then get your hands on everything you can find that Horowitz has previously written. You will not be disappointed.
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Summary: A Tour de Force
Review: Yet another testament to the exceptional ability of Mr. Horowitz in dissecting the serendipitous dogma of the left. He has masterfully presented an intriguing array of arguments grounded in reason and logic. A wonderful read for anyone interested in the more pressing issues of American society.
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Summary: *Sigh*
Review: The title says it all. It's too bad that so many authors think that the way to gain attention is to indulge in race-baiting. The America that Horowitz portrays is one in which liberal do-gooders' policies give African-Americans a free ride. It has little or nothing to do with the America in which we all live--in which racial discrimination against African-Americans is still alarmingly prevalent.
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Summary: Still a self-righteous radical
Review: David Horowitz has injected a useful corrective note to the cultural critic ideology that passes for commentary these days. Unfortunately, he seems not to have changed as much as he thinks since his radical days. He still cannot see the other fellow's point of view, and he clings to irrational prejudices against his erstwhile friends. He says he honors the memory of Martin Luther King, but he excoriates communists in and out of the civil rights movement. What, then, about J. Edgar Hoover, David? You ought to eulogize him as one of your greatest heroes. No one could have been more alert to communist infiltration, yet he bugged Dr. King and sought by nearly any means necessary to discredit him. Was Hoover right after all? According to Mr. Horowitz, all socialism is destructive of individual liberty etc., etc. Then what of Teddy Roosevelt, who insisted on government regulation of drugs and foodstuffs, in the face of fierce opposition from people like you who wanted no interference from the government in the 'free market'? Or the idea of preserving, conserving, our natural environment against rapacious next-quarter-maximizing market forces? Not all reforms of society are against individual liberty, though they may weigh some liberties against others (e.g. the right to own slaves). Sometimes, because of the existence of corporate agents with real market power (i.e. violating a major premise of Smithian economics), the only recourse to Smithian principles is provided BY government interference. There are also errors of fact and logic here, e.g.: Liberals elected to Congress in 1974 took office in January 1975, and could not have caused the downfall of S. Vietnam in April that year, since fiscal budgets are decided for the next year (June 1975 = fiscal 1976) by Congress. And, by the way: re Pinochet's Chile, supposedly the "suspension of liberties was necessary to defend the regime and restore stability to create the economic foundations of a true democracy" - have none of you neocons observed that that sort of reasoning is purest marxism? As a corrective to Horowitz, I suggest Mario Bunge's "Finding Philosophy in Social Science", and Karl Popper's 'the Open Society and its Enemies". Additional reading against 'cultural criticism' can be found in Gross and Levitt's: 'Higher Superstition".
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